A3 SOLUTIONS ANNOUNCES A3 FINANCIAL MODELING

New Planning Software Drives Enterprise Accountability and Agility

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — March 31, 2003 — A3 Solutions, Inc., a pioneer in spreadsheet-centric software technology, announced today the availability of A3 Financial Modeling™, a Web application for financial modeling and analysis that can be deployed in days. Featuring three fully integrated software modules--Compensation Modeling, Capital Modeling, and Expense Modeling--A3 Financial Modeling was developed for the enterprise looking to increase visibility within their budgeting, forecasting and reporting processes in order to drive corporate accountability and agility.

A3 Financial Modeling is the latest packaged offering that A3 Solutions has released on A3 Modeling™, the leading corporate Web-based software solution for modeling. Optimized to work within analytic environments, A3 Modeling is a scalable technology for creating and integrating Web-based modeling applications throughout an enterprise without business interruption. Because A3 Modeling is easy-to-use and to administer, this technology is appropriate for publishing read-only reports over the Web and for managing interactive read-write analytic applications such as budgeting and forecasting. And since models within the application are as easy to configure as spreadsheets, A3 Modeling can be easily administered by a financial analyst--without the involvement of IT.

"A3 Financial Modeling radically reduces the cost of managing detail in budgets, forecasts and reports," said Stuart Ratner, vice president of sales at A3 Solutions. "A3 Financial Modeling makes sense for both enterprises committed to OLAP and those only now developing their analytic processes."

Three Integrated Modules

A3 Financial Modeling combines expense, capital and compensation packages in an integrated budgeting and forecasting application. Built on a multidimensional OLAP foundation, A3 Financial Modeling provides flexible access to GL accounts, allowing users to view and establish expenses by department, product, project, or cost center. Salary, payroll and bonus expenses are linked to the Compensation module, which enables detailed headcount and benefits forecasting at the employee and company level--and every level in-between. Extensive "what-if" features allow users to explore the effect of changing headcount details including start dates, salaries and other data.

The Capital Forecasting module lets companies flexibly model the acquisition, depreciation or amortization and retirement of corporate assets. A3 Capital Forecasting lets users do sophisticated asset modeling using any number of assets, asset classes and depreciation methods. In all modules, new items--such as assets, expenses or heads--can be added easily by the end user, without DBA intervention.

Web-Delivered. Use online or off.

Like all A3 Modeling applications, A3 Financial Modeling delivers models either to the browser in HTML or directly to Microsoft Excel™ where users have the option of working online or offline. For models opened in Excel, planners can reference ancillary worksheets to create the higher-level numbers that are used by Finance and Forecasting. This unique approach allows for the handling of far more business detail, such as employee-level and asset-level detail, within the application. A3 Financial Modeling also reduces cycle times with streamlined workflow and process administration features.

A3 Financial Modeling can easily be extended with additional models to address: revenue modeling, profitability, cash flow, and balance sheet. Furthermore, Financial Modeling ships with a customizable dashboard to give analysts, managers and executives immediate insight into their performance.

About A3 Solutions

A3 Solutions is an innovator in the Corporate Performance Management market (CPM, BPM, EPM). Leveraging its advanced analytic application technology, A3 Solutions competes successfully with market leaders by delivering more powerful budgeting, forecasting, management reporting and executive dashboard solutions that deploy more quickly and at lower total cost. Come to our website (www.a3solutions.com) and see how American Airlines, Avon, Cox Communications, Johnson & Johnson, McDonald's, Safeway, Toyota, Williams Sonoma, and Verizon use software from A3 to reduce the time and labor associated with spreadsheets, increase confidence in reporting and analysis, enjoy more timely and detailed visibility into operational performance, and make decisions more quickly and confidently. A3 Solutions' partners include leading enterprise technology providers such as Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT, News), IBM (NYSE: IBM, News), and Hyperion Solutions (Nasdaq: HYSL, News). A3 Solutions is headquartered in San Francisco, California. To learn more about the company or its flagship product, A3 Modeling, visit www.a3solutions.com, send an email to sales@a3solutions.com, or call (800) 666-CUBE (2823) or 415-356-2300.